Hello Jerry, There are a couple things you can try if you have Microsoft Office. OneNote 2010 (and I think OneNote 2007) will copy text from a picture and place it on the Windows clipboard.
1. Select the JPG file in the folder list without opening the file. 2. Copy the file to the clipboard using CTRL+C. 3. Use Windows key with N to open OneNote. 4. Paste the clipboard contents by using CTRL+V. 5. Use up arrow until you hear "machine generated alternative text" and perhaps some of the text from the picture. 6. Use your application key or Shift+F10 to bring up the context menu. 7. Use down arrow key to the "copy text from picture" choice and press enter key. 8. Open Microsoft Word and paste the text using CTRL+V. 9. You can save the file in word 2010 as a word document or a PDF. If you have an earlier version of Microsoft Office, you can open the .JPG file in Paint and save it as a TIF file. You can then open the TIF file in the Microsoft Office Document Imaging program and use that program to extract the text and send it to Microsoft Word. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jerry martin Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] JPG and PDF question To All Listers: My father-in-law had scanned a few pages of a book into his computer for me, and was going to send these same pages to me via email. However, when he scanned these pages into his computer via a Brother multifunction unit, it had saved each page automatically as a JPG image. Is there a way to convert the JPG image, which is strictly words, or text, into a PDF or a word document? Many thanks in advance. Jerry For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
